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 "id": "pupil-attendance-weekly",
 "title": "Pupil absence each school week, England",
 "category": "education",
 "summary": "Overall absence in England's state-funded primary, secondary and special schools each school week: the percentage of possible sessions missed for any reason, from schools' daily registers. Each week is labelled by its Monday.",
 "unit": "percent",
 "chart": "line",
 "volatile": false,
 "status": "",
 "notes": [
  "A session is a morning or an afternoon. Overall absence counts sessions missed with or without permission.",
  "The DfE recalculates every week of the current academic year in each fortnightly release, as schools update their registers; its analysis suggests a week's absence rate can fall by around 1 percentage point before it settles.",
  "Weeks without a figure are school holidays, for which the DfE publishes none.",
  "The series covers this academic year and last, from September 2025 at the earliest. Until 2024/25, when fewer schools shared their data, the DfE weighted its all-schools rate by school type using the spring census, so earlier years are on a different basis."
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  "licence_name": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T11:41:53Z",
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  "latest_period": "2026-10-05",
  "versions": {
   "2025/26": "3.20",
   "2026/27": "4.2"
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  "weeks_published": 44
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 "headline": {
  "label": "Overall absence, week beginning",
  "value": 5.57,
  "period": "2026-10-05"
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   "name": "Overall absence, all state-funded schools",
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     "v": 4.74
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     "x": "2025-09-22",
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     "x": "2025-10-06",
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     "x": "2025-10-13",
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     "x": "2025-10-20",
     "v": 7.29
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    {
     "x": "2025-10-27",
     "v": null
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     "x": "2025-11-03",
     "v": 6.03
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     "x": "2025-11-10",
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     "x": "2025-11-17",
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     "v": null
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     "x": "2026-01-05",
     "v": 6.83
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     "v": 6.22
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     "x": "2026-01-19",
     "v": 6.57
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     "x": "2026-01-26",
     "v": 7.0
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     "x": "2026-02-02",
     "v": 6.79
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     "v": 7.19
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     "x": "2026-02-16",
     "v": null
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     "x": "2026-02-23",
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     "x": "2026-03-02",
     "v": 5.84
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     "x": "2026-03-09",
     "v": 6.32
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    {
     "x": "2026-03-16",
     "v": 8.59
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     "x": "2026-03-23",
     "v": 7.31
    },
    {
     "x": "2026-03-30",
     "v": 8.19
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    {
     "x": "2026-04-06",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2026-04-13",
     "v": 6.21
    },
    {
     "x": "2026-04-20",
     "v": 6.13
    },
    {
     "x": "2026-04-27",
     "v": 6.48
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    {
     "x": "2026-05-04",
     "v": 6.92
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     "x": "2026-05-11",
     "v": 6.71
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     "x": "2026-05-18",
     "v": 8.91
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    {
     "x": "2026-05-25",
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    {
     "x": "2026-06-01",
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    {
     "x": "2026-06-08",
     "v": 6.37
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    {
     "x": "2026-06-15",
     "v": 6.62
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    {
     "x": "2026-06-22",
     "v": 11.76
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     "v": 6.79
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     "x": "2026-07-06",
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    {
     "x": "2026-07-13",
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     "x": "2026-07-20",
     "v": null
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     "x": "2026-07-27",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2026-08-03",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2026-08-10",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2026-08-17",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2026-08-24",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2026-08-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2026-09-07",
     "v": 4.62
    },
    {
     "x": "2026-09-14",
     "v": 5.44
    },
    {
     "x": "2026-09-21",
     "v": 5.9
    },
    {
     "x": "2026-09-28",
     "v": 5.74
    },
    {
     "x": "2026-10-05",
     "v": 5.57
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  }
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}